The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1631 - Gay Sex Offender Buys a Baby Through Surrogacy. How Is This Legal？

00:00:00.000 Today, Matt, we'll show two gay men obtained a baby through surrogacy. 0.79

00:00:03.700 The left condemned anyone who criticized them. 0.99

00:00:05.980 A day later, it's revealed that one of the men is a convicted child sex predator.

00:00:10.160 Why is surrogacy legal for someone like that?

00:00:12.180 Why is it legal at all?

00:00:13.060 We'll discuss.

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00:00:24.920 And a WNBA player has her wig fall off during a game.

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00:02:11.580 You can tell a lot about the strength of a particular argument or worldview

00:02:15.660 by how long it lasts before reality ends up discrediting it.

00:02:19.400 There are some debates that don't need to be settled by consulting with dozens of experts

00:02:23.120 or asking 10 different AI models and then comparing notes.

00:02:26.480 Instead, certain events take place and they resolve the disagreement right away.

00:02:30.920 Catastrophic nuclear meltdown ended any discussion about how effective

00:02:34.100 Chernobyl's emergency shutdown mechanism was.

00:02:36.440 An iceberg convinced everyone that despite all the marketing hype,

00:02:39.720 the Titanic could in fact sink. 0.84

00:02:41.600 I mean, there are limits to the ability of liars and charlatans

00:02:45.460 to deceive the population, in other words.

00:02:48.540 Even the most convincing fraudsters face the risk of exposure

00:02:51.840 if their deception is simply too absurd to be compatible with reality.

00:02:56.420 The more absurd the deception is, the faster it generally falls apart.

00:03:01.260 By that standard, there are a few lies that are more flagrant 0.82

00:03:04.700 and obviously flagrant than the fiction that gay men should be allowed to adopt children 0.97

00:03:11.640 or to acquire them by paying for a woman to serve as a quote-unquote surrogate.

00:03:16.640 As we saw recently, a journalist named Glenn Greenwald personally attacked me

00:03:20.040 for holding the position that children should be raised by a mother and a father,

00:03:24.640 a position that everybody in the world has agreed with, you know, up until 10 seconds ago.

00:03:29.260 He maintained in a very public and vitriolic fashion that I was a terrible person

00:03:33.700 for suggesting that gay adoption is not an ideal outcome for a child.

00:03:38.280 He presented himself as infinitely more virtuous than I am

00:03:41.740 because of his decision to acquire young children.

00:03:45.000 And then within a matter of weeks,

00:03:46.240 Greenwald himself demonstrated through his own conduct on camera

00:03:49.020 why my position was correct.

00:03:52.120 That was back in June.

00:03:53.500 And now, just a month later, it has happened again.

00:03:57.060 Again, reality has caused yet another major problem for the left's narrative

00:04:01.220 about homosexuals who adopt children.

00:04:03.260 Only this time, reality reared its head even faster, as in within 24 hours. 0.91

00:04:08.560 And the implications here are somehow even more disturbing and grotesque

00:04:11.660 than they were with Glenn Greenwald's debauchery.

00:04:13.740 This is a story that makes it very clear that laws need to change

00:04:17.760 and they need to change immediately.

00:04:20.440 And people need to go to prison. 0.98

00:04:22.960 Now, it all began on Sunday when an Irish political activist named Derek Bly

00:04:26.260 discovered some videos that had been posted on a gay couple's social media feeds.

00:04:31.780 The videos show the two gay men, both of whom are overweight, 0.97

00:04:36.360 marking monthly anniversaries with a child that they've obtained. 0.56

00:04:40.100 In every video, they blow out a candle on the cupcake

00:04:43.060 and the videos keep going and the men seem to somehow get fatter each time.

00:04:48.380 I don't know how.

00:04:48.940 But in response to these videos on Sunday, Derek Bly posted simply,

00:04:53.720 unless a miracle happens, this child has almost no chance at a normal life.

00:04:58.400 And he was right, of course.

00:05:00.260 At a visceral level, the footage is repulsive.

00:05:03.580 Everyone understands that, whether they admit it or not,

00:05:07.580 when a child is deprived of his mother and father deliberately,

00:05:12.420 it is not something to celebrate.

00:05:15.900 It's a very bad thing.

00:05:17.280 It's a tragedy that's inflicted on someone who cannot possibly deserve it

00:05:21.700 and who may never recover from it.

00:05:25.960 And that's especially true when, in lieu of a mother and a father,

00:05:28.760 a child is obtained by two men who belong to a demographic

00:05:32.360 whose behavior, in a very disproportionate number of cases statistically,

00:05:36.800 is completely incompatible with raising children,

00:05:39.880 to put things as mildly as possible.

00:05:42.420 It's also a demographic that's disproportionately interested

00:05:44.560 in adopting male children.

00:05:47.320 And again, everyone understands what's going on there,

00:05:49.600 though nobody will say it.

00:05:51.940 And yet, when Bly made this simple and straightforward observation,

00:05:54.740 hundreds of thousands of left-wing activists

00:05:56.680 pretended to be shocked and horrified by what he had written.

00:06:00.520 They also claimed that, in fact, it's better for the child 0.57

00:06:03.680 to be raised by two gay men than by his own mother and father.

00:06:07.180 Here's one representative post which has more than 6 million views

00:06:09.860 and 220,000 likes on X.

00:06:12.100 Quote, makes me happy.

00:06:14.420 The baby is going to be raised not to hate people and will be loved.

00:06:19.220 Here's another post from someone named Bev Jackson

00:06:21.440 of a group called Alliance LGB.

00:06:24.420 This came in response to Derek's post expressing disgust

00:06:26.640 at the footage.

00:06:27.320 Quote, that is homophobic.

00:06:28.940 If the child has two loving male parents,

00:06:30.720 there's no evidence whatsoever that he or she will not prosper.

00:06:35.200 But Bev Jackson's response didn't last very long.

00:06:39.840 Just a few hours later, Bev deleted it.

00:06:42.500 And a lot of other people, like Bev, deleted their reactions also.

00:06:46.320 And that's because, in record-breaking time,

00:06:48.900 the narrative took an extremely dark,

00:06:51.220 though certainly not surprising, turn.

00:06:53.740 The journalist at Redux decided to take a closer look

00:06:56.480 at the two gay men in the video with that toddler.

00:06:59.020 And here's what they found.

00:07:01.300 Quote, a widely circulated video showcasing

00:07:03.460 a gay couple's surrogacy journey

00:07:05.260 has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody

00:07:07.960 of a registered child sex offender.

00:07:10.540 Brandon Keith Mitchell is a Tier 1 sex offender

00:07:13.180 of the state of Pennsylvania

00:07:14.100 and was arrested in 2016 after attempting to solicit

00:07:16.480 a 16-year-old boy for sexual abuse.

00:07:18.780 The victim in the case was a student

00:07:20.320 at Downington West High School

00:07:22.140 where Mitchell had worked as a chemistry teacher.

00:07:24.520 He was 30 years old at the time.

00:07:26.040 Now, here's an image of Brandon Mitchell

00:07:28.560 when he was teaching.

00:07:30.360 And you can see it there.

00:07:31.040 Now, according to local news reports,

00:07:32.260 Mitchell was, quote,

00:07:33.160 charged with texting obscene images

00:07:35.060 and texts to a student

00:07:36.160 and asking for nude images of the underage student.

00:07:39.940 Mitchell taught at the school from 2010 to 2015.

00:07:42.180 And during this period,

00:07:42.980 he reportedly sent more than 12,000 text messages

00:07:45.780 to this student.

00:07:47.800 He ended up pleading guilty

00:07:49.020 to felony child pornography possession

00:07:50.980 and one count of corruption of minors

00:07:53.100 because police found sexually explicit videos

00:07:55.700 of the child on his personal computer.

00:07:57.780 And he was sentenced to nearly two years

00:07:59.420 of incarceration,

00:08:00.800 which is not nearly enough.

00:08:02.580 But he didn't serve anywhere near

00:08:04.440 even that light sentence.

00:08:05.880 Just two months after his conviction,

00:08:07.300 Redux reports,

00:08:08.260 he was granted parole

00:08:09.520 for a crime that should have resulted

00:08:11.960 in life imprisonment at a minimum.

00:08:14.380 He barely spent any time in prison at all.

00:08:17.800 The Redux article continues, quote,

00:08:19.020 Part of his conditions included

00:08:20.520 that he have no unsupervised contact with minors

00:08:23.820 and that he surrender his teaching license.

00:08:26.120 He quickly moved on to obtain a job as a chemist

00:08:28.440 at Eurofins Biopharma Product Testing in Lancaster,

00:08:32.100 where he's worked for the past nine years.

00:08:34.580 In 2021, Mitchell married Logan Riley,

00:08:37.080 a second grade teacher from Maryland,

00:08:38.460 and moved to Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania.

00:08:42.260 In 2023, the two launched a GoFundMe

00:08:44.900 to raise money for a surrogate. 1.00

00:08:48.080 That's a second grade teacher

00:08:49.420 who is married to a, quote, unquote, married,

00:08:53.940 big air quotes around that, 0.94

00:08:55.700 to a male child sex offender.

00:08:58.900 And that guy is teaching kids.

00:09:02.800 Now, so they had this GoFundMe.

00:09:04.800 Of course, the GoFundMe didn't mention

00:09:06.020 the whole convicted sex offender thing.

00:09:08.340 In any event, the fundraiser

00:09:09.380 has since been taken down,

00:09:10.440 but it reportedly had a goal of $50,000.

00:09:12.660 It raised just over $2,000.

00:09:14.360 So it wasn't exactly a huge success.

00:09:17.580 Nevertheless, Riley,

00:09:18.520 the husband of the, quote, unquote,

00:09:20.220 husband of the convicted sex offender,

00:09:22.800 reported that in November, 2023,

00:09:24.540 they had found a surrogate.

00:09:25.860 Quote,

00:09:26.480 Our surrogate went through extensive medical

00:09:28.040 and social worker evaluations

00:09:29.280 in order to be approved for surrogacy.

00:09:31.240 Once approved,

00:09:31.940 the lengthy legal and financial process began.

00:09:34.140 We're so excited that our amazing surrogate

00:09:36.020 will carry one of our embryos for us,

00:09:38.600 helping to expand our family.

00:09:41.360 Quote, quote.

00:09:41.800 Our embryos.

00:09:46.320 There's no our here 1.00

00:09:47.960 because two men can't create,

00:09:50.420 can't conceive.

00:09:51.480 So just to be clear about that.

00:09:54.540 Now, it's hard to miss the irony here. 0.94

00:09:56.720 According to these two gay men,

00:09:58.160 there was an extensive screening process

00:10:00.800 for their surrogate,

00:10:02.860 meaning the woman whose body

00:10:03.900 they were going to rent

00:10:04.620 so that she would bear a child for them 0.97

00:10:07.420 so that they could pretend to be parents.

00:10:09.960 Social workers, doctors, lawyers,

00:10:12.060 all were involved.

00:10:13.420 All were involved with screening the woman

00:10:15.700 whose body is being rented.

00:10:19.340 And yet, evidently,

00:10:20.200 there was no screening process whatsoever

00:10:22.900 for these two men, 0.91

00:10:24.920 these two gay men. 0.81

00:10:26.620 No one in the federal government 0.89

00:10:27.980 or the state of Pennsylvania

00:10:28.880 saw any problem

00:10:29.880 with creating a new human life

00:10:32.220 for the sole purpose

00:10:33.060 of handing that child off 1.00

00:10:34.840 to a convicted sexual predator. 0.99

00:10:36.500 And not just any convicted sexual predator. 0.94

00:10:38.960 We're talking about a convicted sexual predator

00:10:40.200 who specifically preyed on a child.

00:10:43.940 Now, at first, you might think,

00:10:45.420 well, there must have been some massive,

00:10:47.780 very unfortunate, tragic mistake.

00:10:50.860 Surely, you'd assume

00:10:51.580 there must be a thorough vetting process

00:10:53.460 for the parents of children

00:10:54.640 who are born through surrogacy.

00:10:55.960 And somehow, in this particular case,

00:10:58.360 someone must have fallen asleep on the job.

00:10:59.920 Maybe they ran a criminal background check

00:11:01.340 under the wrong name

00:11:02.700 or something like that.

00:11:03.860 But that's not remotely what happened.

00:11:06.380 As it turns out,

00:11:07.020 there is no legal bar

00:11:08.620 in the state of Pennsylvania

00:11:09.580 or many other states

00:11:10.700 for convicted sexual predators

00:11:12.100 to obtain children through surrogacy.

00:11:14.860 It is completely legal

00:11:16.780 in many states.

00:11:18.540 There are no roadblocks whatsoever.

00:11:22.060 So you can have someone

00:11:23.200 who is legally barred

00:11:24.600 from being around minors

00:11:26.140 who can yet still obtain a child

00:11:28.700 through surrogacy.

00:11:29.340 Again, this is from Redux.

00:11:34.320 Quote,

00:11:34.660 Redux reached out

00:11:35.500 to the Division Pennsylvania State Police

00:11:37.480 responsible for maintaining

00:11:38.760 Mitchell's registration

00:11:39.620 and was informed

00:11:40.360 that the state

00:11:40.860 does not automatically

00:11:41.660 forbid individuals

00:11:42.480 convicted of sex crimes

00:11:43.500 from having children,

00:11:45.080 gaining custody,

00:11:45.660 or exercising parental rights.

00:11:47.300 While Pennsylvania's adoption law

00:11:48.420 does prohibit sex offenders

00:11:49.480 from adopting

00:11:50.060 or fostering children,

00:11:51.640 gestational surrogacy

00:11:52.780 circumvents any such laws

00:11:54.180 through pre-birth parentage orders.

00:11:56.460 So you heard that correctly.

00:11:59.880 Individuals who are convicted

00:12:00.700 of sex crimes,

00:12:01.540 including sex crimes

00:12:02.920 involving children,

00:12:04.380 crimes so severe

00:12:05.160 that the guilty party

00:12:05.940 had to agree

00:12:06.860 to have no unsupervised contact

00:12:08.640 with minors,

00:12:09.640 are allowed

00:12:10.840 to obtain children

00:12:12.540 in Pennsylvania.

00:12:13.320 The only restriction

00:12:13.920 is that instead of adopting

00:12:14.920 a child,

00:12:15.300 they have to pay a woman 1.00

00:12:16.440 to give birth to the child

00:12:18.160 and then hand the child

00:12:19.160 over to them.

00:12:21.140 I mean, this is a policy

00:12:21.940 that is so incomprehensible,

00:12:23.600 so evil,

00:12:24.280 that it's hard

00:12:25.880 to even talk about.

00:12:27.920 And it's also a policy

00:12:29.040 that evidently

00:12:29.720 a lot of officials

00:12:30.400 in Pennsylvania

00:12:31.120 aren't even aware of.

00:12:33.040 One of Redux's writers

00:12:34.100 posted this on social media

00:12:35.360 as she was working

00:12:36.140 on the story,

00:12:36.580 quote,

00:12:37.200 while I was talking

00:12:37.720 to the state police

00:12:38.300 sex offender division,

00:12:39.180 the agent actually stopped

00:12:40.120 for a moment

00:12:40.560 when I mentioned

00:12:41.060 it was a surrogate baby

00:12:41.880 and said,

00:12:42.480 but surely there's

00:12:43.580 a vetting process

00:12:44.240 for this kind of thing.

00:12:46.920 Well, actually, no.

00:12:48.680 There's no vetting process

00:12:49.820 for this kind of thing,

00:12:51.400 as it turns out.

00:12:52.240 If someone is a pedophile 0.75

00:12:56.920 in the state of Pennsylvania

00:12:57.900 and they've been convicted

00:12:59.000 for corrupting minors

00:13:00.200 and possessing child pornography,

00:13:02.600 they're still completely free

00:13:03.760 to obtain a child

00:13:04.480 through surrogacy.

00:13:05.240 And not just any child,

00:13:06.440 a newborn

00:13:06.880 with no known relatives,

00:13:08.700 no next of kin

00:13:09.560 to check on him.

00:13:10.920 And then once they have

00:13:11.980 this defenseless child

00:13:12.740 in their home,

00:13:13.300 he is entirely at their mercy

00:13:14.660 and helpless

00:13:15.120 and no one can see

00:13:16.220 what they're doing

00:13:16.720 and there's no one

00:13:18.120 who actually knows the child

00:13:19.280 or cares for him.

00:13:20.140 Even his mother

00:13:22.260 isn't allowed

00:13:22.780 to speak to him

00:13:23.600 or know where he is

00:13:25.280 or know anything about him.

00:13:27.320 It's almost as if

00:13:28.040 the state went out of its way

00:13:29.060 to create a loophole

00:13:29.880 for pedophiles.

00:13:31.660 And there are no words

00:13:32.740 for how dark this is.

00:13:33.780 And by the way,

00:13:34.740 this is one of the

00:13:35.420 many fundamental

00:13:36.900 fatal problems

00:13:37.880 with relying on statistics

00:13:39.720 and experts

00:13:40.660 who tell you

00:13:41.620 that gay adoption 0.75

00:13:42.280 is completely fine 0.59

00:13:43.140 and appropriate.

00:13:44.680 Every single mainstream expert

00:13:45.860 will tell you 0.91

00:13:46.300 that gay men 0.70

00:13:46.860 are just as capable

00:13:48.200 as straight couples

00:13:48.820 to raise children,

00:13:49.560 if not more so.

00:13:51.820 They'll tell you

00:13:52.660 to suspend

00:13:53.140 all of your intuitions

00:13:54.200 and common sense.

00:13:55.220 They'll call you a bigot

00:13:56.020 if you disagree.

00:13:57.580 But the truth is

00:13:58.320 none of these experts

00:13:59.520 actually know

00:14:00.100 what's going on

00:14:00.720 inside these households

00:14:01.520 where men are raising

00:14:02.760 children that aren't theirs.

00:14:04.620 None of the statistics

00:14:05.540 can capture the reality

00:14:06.840 of what's happening

00:14:07.500 because only the parents

00:14:08.460 who are caught

00:14:09.020 abusing,

00:14:10.120 actually caught

00:14:10.880 abusing their children

00:14:11.740 will be reflected

00:14:13.200 in the statistics.

00:14:14.200 That's why we have

00:14:17.860 intuition

00:14:18.360 and basic morality.

00:14:20.640 And it's why

00:14:21.320 we should always

00:14:21.960 pay close attention

00:14:22.880 whenever activists

00:14:24.000 on the other side

00:14:24.680 in a demonic

00:14:25.500 kind of rage

00:14:26.460 attempt to claim

00:14:27.540 the moral high ground

00:14:28.700 only for it to

00:14:29.500 crumble immediately

00:14:30.400 in a matter of days

00:14:31.220 or hours in this case.

00:14:33.740 I mean,

00:14:33.960 there are some lies

00:14:34.660 that are simply

00:14:35.120 too evil

00:14:35.840 and unsustainable

00:14:36.680 to survive contact

00:14:37.820 with reality.

00:14:38.480 The fiction 0.90

00:14:38.900 that gay men

00:14:40.060 are appropriate 0.83

00:14:40.740 foster parents

00:14:41.520 for other people's

00:14:42.200 children

00:14:42.480 is one of them.

00:14:45.040 In recent months,

00:14:46.000 we've repeatedly

00:14:46.580 seen glimpses

00:14:47.360 into the horrors

00:14:48.020 that many of those

00:14:48.640 children are enduring

00:14:49.380 behind closed doors.

00:14:50.440 There was also

00:14:50.760 the recent case

00:14:51.360 of William and

00:14:52.000 Zachary Zillick

00:14:53.280 in Georgia,

00:14:54.080 for example,

00:14:54.920 who were sexually 0.58

00:14:55.460 abusing their two 0.98

00:14:56.120 adopted children.

00:14:57.620 And they probably

00:14:58.420 never would have

00:14:59.080 been caught

00:14:59.540 if they hadn't

00:15:00.060 bragged about

00:15:00.620 their behavior

00:15:01.160 to others.

00:15:02.840 It's only because

00:15:03.820 of that that we

00:15:04.500 know about this

00:15:05.160 and that that can

00:15:06.000 be counted

00:15:06.600 in the statistics.

00:15:10.840 Now, especially

00:15:11.600 in light of stories

00:15:12.780 like this,

00:15:13.360 it shouldn't be

00:15:14.000 remotely controversial

00:15:14.920 to say that the

00:15:16.940 safety of children

00:15:17.740 is infinitely,

00:15:19.020 the safety and

00:15:19.800 well-being and

00:15:20.600 proper, you know,

00:15:22.860 care for children

00:15:24.760 infinitely more

00:15:26.540 important than any 0.85

00:15:27.760 gay man's desire 1.00

00:15:28.860 to become a parent. 0.98

00:15:30.520 Nature has already 0.98

00:15:32.700 decided that gay 0.98

00:15:34.260 couples will be

00:15:35.160 childless by definition.

00:15:38.040 That's not it.

00:15:38.500 There's no law

00:15:39.300 that decided that.

00:15:41.060 That's how the

00:15:41.840 natural world works. 0.99

00:15:44.360 You're in a gay 1.00

00:15:45.720 quote-unquote 0.97

00:15:46.100 marriage and you

00:15:46.720 want to have kids.

00:15:47.640 Well, you can't.

00:15:48.900 It's impossible.

00:15:50.200 It is literally

00:15:50.900 impossible.

00:15:54.360 And the law

00:15:55.680 should reflect that.

00:15:59.160 Reality has made

00:16:00.340 it impossible

00:16:01.040 for two gay men 0.98

00:16:02.100 to be parents

00:16:02.880 and the law

00:16:04.000 should follow suit.

00:16:05.140 The law should

00:16:05.960 follow and reflect

00:16:07.560 reality.

00:16:08.440 Starting with

00:16:10.840 the state of

00:16:11.200 Pennsylvania,

00:16:11.780 which should

00:16:12.080 immediately change

00:16:12.840 its law and

00:16:13.480 remove this

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00:18:03.660 Yesterday, we

00:18:05.100 started the show

00:18:05.700 with the horrifying

00:18:07.360 story out of

00:18:08.340 Cincinnati of the

00:18:09.440 vicious assaults on 0.95

00:18:11.760 random white people 0.92

00:18:12.540 outside of a music

00:18:13.280 festival in the city. 0.97

00:18:14.380 They were sucker

00:18:14.940 punched, beaten, 0.79

00:18:15.700 thrown to the ground,

00:18:16.360 stomped while on the

00:18:16.960 ground. 0.89

00:18:17.620 Very sickening stuff.

00:18:18.800 There are some

00:18:19.220 updates to this story.

00:18:20.300 A couple of

00:18:20.840 positive updates,

00:18:23.400 as positive as

00:18:23.920 something can be in

00:18:24.820 a situation like

00:18:25.880 this.

00:18:28.120 And then one

00:18:28.840 that's not so great.

00:18:30.580 Vice President Vance

00:18:31.880 spoke out about the

00:18:32.740 incident in very

00:18:33.660 strong and clear

00:18:34.360 terms yesterday

00:18:35.320 when he was asked

00:18:36.360 about it while

00:18:36.920 addressing a crowd.

00:18:38.620 Listen to that.

00:18:39.280 Here it is.

00:18:40.280 There was a group

00:18:42.100 of people who

00:18:43.200 attacked a couple

00:18:44.120 folks on the

00:18:45.300 street in Cincinnati.

00:18:48.080 Senator Bernie

00:18:48.840 Marino, some

00:18:49.580 others have spoken

00:18:50.300 out about it,

00:18:50.920 have been critical

00:18:51.520 of it.

00:18:52.000 Okay, okay.

00:18:52.540 Yes, yes.

00:18:53.240 So what I saw,

00:18:55.420 and I haven't

00:18:56.220 seen the full

00:18:56.840 context, but what I

00:18:57.780 saw is a mob of

00:18:59.060 lawless thugs 0.56

00:18:59.900 beaten up on an 0.76

00:19:00.620 innocent person 0.95

00:19:01.240 and it's disgusting. 0.90

00:19:02.600 And I hope every

00:19:03.060 single one of those

00:19:03.620 people who engage in

00:19:04.540 violence is prosecuted

00:19:05.580 to the full extent

00:19:06.300 of the law.

00:19:07.000 And they will be.

00:19:07.800 They will be so long

00:19:08.840 as law enforcement

00:19:10.100 in the state of

00:19:10.780 Ohio takes their

00:19:11.880 job seriously.

00:19:12.720 I know Dave Yost

00:19:13.500 cares a lot about

00:19:14.300 these things.

00:19:15.780 But yeah, I actually,

00:19:17.220 you're right, Bernie

00:19:18.200 did send me a clip

00:19:19.300 of this and we

00:19:20.300 talked a little bit

00:19:21.040 about it.

00:19:21.540 I don't know the

00:19:22.120 full context.

00:19:22.980 I don't know how

00:19:23.440 the fight started.

00:19:24.640 But the one part

00:19:25.480 that I saw that was

00:19:26.320 really gruesome is you

00:19:27.820 had a grown man

00:19:28.960 who sucker punched

00:19:30.260 a middle-aged woman.

00:19:32.560 And where I come

00:19:33.180 from, at least,

00:19:33.760 when you have a 0.98

00:19:34.160 grown man who sucker 0.86

00:19:35.620 punches a middle-aged

00:19:36.500 woman, that person 1.00

00:19:37.900 ought to go to jail

00:19:38.660 for a very long time.

00:19:40.040 And frankly, he's

00:19:40.820 lucky there weren't

00:19:41.860 some better people

00:19:42.540 around because they

00:19:43.240 would have handled

00:19:43.660 it themselves.

00:19:44.460 But if they're not

00:19:45.200 going to handle it,

00:19:46.080 the cops in Cincinnati,

00:19:47.340 the law enforcement,

00:19:48.400 you've got to

00:19:49.020 prosecute people.

00:19:50.140 We've had way too

00:19:51.300 much lawlessness on

00:19:52.520 the streets of great

00:19:53.340 American cities.

00:19:55.320 Well, that's well

00:19:56.840 said. 0.94

00:19:58.960 Lawless thugs,

00:19:59.880 that's a correct

00:20:00.440 characterization.

00:20:01.440 Meanwhile, we got

00:20:02.840 word yesterday that

00:20:03.500 the FBI and DOJ

00:20:04.580 are getting involved.

00:20:06.480 At least they're

00:20:07.100 going to investigate,

00:20:08.860 which is good.

00:20:10.420 Hopefully something

00:20:10.840 comes of it.

00:20:11.480 That's, of course,

00:20:11.940 something that never

00:20:12.700 would have happened

00:20:13.300 under the Biden

00:20:13.940 administration or any

00:20:14.740 Democrat administration

00:20:15.560 or, honestly, any

00:20:16.420 Republican administration,

00:20:17.420 including the previous

00:20:18.900 Trump administration.

00:20:19.980 So this is good.

00:20:20.820 And hopefully something,

00:20:21.780 again, actually comes

00:20:22.860 from it. 0.99

00:20:24.180 Prosecute these people

00:20:25.080 for hate crimes.

00:20:26.260 I don't like hate

00:20:26.880 crime laws personally.

00:20:27.660 I think they should

00:20:28.200 all be abolished.

00:20:29.120 I don't think they

00:20:30.620 make sense.

00:20:31.180 I've made that case a

00:20:32.060 million times on the

00:20:32.700 show.

00:20:33.340 But if you're going to

00:20:34.160 have them, you have

00:20:35.700 to apply them equally.

00:20:37.160 It's bad to have hate

00:20:38.320 crime laws.

00:20:38.900 It's much worse to have

00:20:40.060 them and not apply them

00:20:41.140 equally.

00:20:42.180 And so that has to

00:20:43.300 happen here.

00:20:44.320 And hopefully it does.

00:20:46.440 On the other side of

00:20:47.380 the equation, however,

00:20:48.400 we have the performance

00:20:49.820 of the Cincinnati police

00:20:51.020 chief, a woman named

00:20:51.880 Teresa Thetig,

00:20:54.460 T-H-E-E-T-G-E 1.00

00:20:57.080 is the, people make

00:21:00.000 fun of me for

00:21:00.580 mispronouncing names,

00:21:01.620 but you know, on the

00:21:03.600 fly, you're given that

00:21:05.440 spelling, T-H-E-E-T-G-E.

00:21:08.520 T-G-E? 0.95

00:21:09.400 How am I supposed to

00:21:09.820 pronounce that?

00:21:10.220 I don't know.

00:21:10.660 This is, I speak

00:21:11.600 English.

00:21:11.880 I speak American, 1.00

00:21:12.660 damn it. 1.00

00:21:14.240 T-G-E? 1.00

00:21:14.900 T-G-E? 0.95

00:21:16.460 Anyway, we'll just

00:21:17.120 call her Teresa.

00:21:18.160 She gave a press

00:21:18.940 conference yesterday

00:21:19.380 where she delivered a

00:21:20.320 lecture about the

00:21:21.740 dangers of social media

00:21:23.240 because that's what

00:21:24.300 she's worried about.

00:21:26.860 There's mob violence

00:21:28.720 in the streets of the

00:21:29.860 city that she's

00:21:30.480 supposed to be

00:21:30.880 protecting.

00:21:31.920 And what she's

00:21:32.360 worried about are

00:21:34.220 all the people on

00:21:34.960 social media who are

00:21:36.000 saying mean things

00:21:37.120 and only, only

00:21:38.700 listening or paying

00:21:40.420 attention to one

00:21:41.380 side of the story

00:21:42.260 is what police chief

00:21:43.620 Teresa is very

00:21:44.580 concerned about.

00:21:45.700 Watch.

00:21:46.520 Social media and

00:21:47.620 journalism and the

00:21:49.320 role it plays in this

00:21:50.340 incident.

00:21:51.420 And yes, guys,

00:21:52.320 that's you.

00:21:53.240 That is you.

00:21:56.960 Social media, the

00:21:58.680 post that we've seen,

00:22:00.260 does not depict the

00:22:01.480 entire incident.

00:22:03.780 That is one version of

00:22:07.100 what occurred.

00:22:09.440 At times, social media

00:22:11.440 and mainstream media

00:22:13.380 and their commentaries

00:22:15.980 are a misrepresentation

00:22:17.700 of the circumstances

00:22:19.480 surrounding any given

00:22:22.240 event.

00:22:22.920 What that does, that

00:22:26.180 causes us some

00:22:27.280 difficulties in

00:22:28.340 thoroughly investigating

00:22:30.120 the activity and

00:22:32.420 enforcing the law.

00:22:34.760 Because what happens,

00:22:36.360 that social media post

00:22:37.880 and your coverage of it

00:22:40.040 distorts the content of

00:22:43.400 what actually happened.

00:22:44.520 and it makes our job

00:22:47.260 more difficult.

00:22:48.600 Go ahead, right here.

00:22:49.960 Thank you.

00:22:50.300 Two questions.

00:22:50.960 Where were the nearest

00:22:51.660 officers?

00:22:53.200 In the central business

00:22:54.080 section.

00:22:55.180 They were working.

00:22:56.320 They were both in

00:22:56.980 vehicles.

00:22:57.880 And like I said, they had

00:22:58.700 to maneuver through the

00:22:59.600 traffic.

00:23:00.360 Second question is,

00:23:01.520 you said social media

00:23:02.440 and news media distorted

00:23:03.280 the content of what

00:23:04.160 actually happened.

00:23:05.220 What exactly was

00:23:05.980 distorted?

00:23:06.400 I understand that there

00:23:07.560 was one, you know,

00:23:08.320 multiple views of the

00:23:09.180 video, but exactly what

00:23:11.780 led up to this?

00:23:13.000 I mean, what was

00:23:13.480 distorted?

00:23:14.540 Yeah, so I think by the

00:23:18.720 irresponsibility with

00:23:20.000 social media is it just

00:23:21.560 shows one side of the

00:23:23.660 equation quite frequently

00:23:25.540 without context, without

00:23:28.140 factual context.

00:23:30.260 And then people run with

00:23:32.280 that.

00:23:33.180 So we get that school

00:23:34.700 Marm lecture from a

00:23:36.220 woman who looks like the 1.00

00:23:38.100 librarian who yelled at

00:23:39.620 me in fifth grade because

00:23:40.780 I didn't return my copies

00:23:42.040 of my Animorph books.

00:23:45.340 She's very concerned that

00:23:46.820 social media isn't giving

00:23:48.140 the full story and showing

00:23:49.560 both sides.

00:23:51.120 Now, you'll notice that we

00:23:51.880 never got any of those

00:23:52.860 sorts of lectures during,

00:23:54.980 say, the George Floyd

00:23:55.760 riots.

00:23:56.960 Nobody was worried about

00:23:58.140 both sides back then.

00:24:00.720 In that case, we got a very

00:24:02.040 out of context video.

00:24:03.060 I mean, we've gotten this

00:24:03.680 with every BLM martyr, all 0.83

00:24:06.620 the so-called police

00:24:07.620 brutality videos, always

00:24:10.140 very out of context

00:24:12.700 videos, videos that pick

00:24:13.900 up like in the middle of

00:24:15.620 something, you're in the

00:24:16.940 middle of it.

00:24:17.480 It's clear that there's

00:24:18.600 something really relevant

00:24:20.260 that precipitated what's

00:24:21.820 happening.

00:24:22.300 We never see that.

00:24:23.800 And you never hear the

00:24:25.060 officials saying, oh, we

00:24:26.200 want both sides of the

00:24:27.000 story.

00:24:28.540 But here they do.

00:24:29.420 The problem is that

00:24:30.200 there's no other side of

00:24:32.900 the story that could

00:24:33.480 possibly justify a sucker 0.69

00:24:34.620 punching a woman or

00:24:36.000 beating a man while he's 0.98

00:24:37.040 lying on the ground. 0.54

00:24:37.820 There's no, there's, there's

00:24:41.060 nothing that could have

00:24:41.620 happened that would

00:24:41.980 justify that.

00:24:42.500 There's no indication at

00:24:43.480 all that the victims here

00:24:44.420 initiated any kind of

00:24:45.940 violent incident.

00:24:47.720 There's no indication of

00:24:48.780 that.

00:24:48.960 There's no evidence of

00:24:49.620 that that I'm aware of.

00:24:50.540 But, but even if they did,

00:24:51.720 which I don't think they

00:24:52.400 did, the response from the

00:24:54.900 mob is obviously still not

00:24:56.820 self-defense.

00:24:57.300 It's coming up behind

00:24:58.060 someone and punching them 0.99

00:24:59.220 in the, in the head means 0.98

00:25:00.920 by definition that it's

00:25:02.320 not self-defense.

00:25:03.860 When someone's on the

00:25:04.980 ground in the fetal

00:25:06.100 position, that is very

00:25:08.980 good indication that they

00:25:10.240 are not a threat to you.

00:25:11.260 They, they have given up

00:25:12.540 completely.

00:25:13.320 So when you start stomping

00:25:14.880 on them while they're on

00:25:15.700 the ground, it, it cannot

00:25:16.840 possibly be self-defense no

00:25:19.020 matter what happened before.

00:25:21.400 So there's no context here

00:25:22.940 that could really change the

00:25:24.220 story.

00:25:24.460 And besides, we all know

00:25:25.660 what these people really

00:25:27.320 mean when they start

00:25:27.980 talking about context and

00:25:29.400 the other side of the

00:25:30.120 story, it's, they know

00:25:32.660 that this was not, you

00:25:33.520 know, that nothing violent

00:25:34.460 happened.

00:25:35.040 This was these, these, uh,

00:25:36.520 the white people that are

00:25:37.580 being assaulted here almost

00:25:39.100 certainly did not, they

00:25:40.140 didn't go up and like

00:25:40.660 smack anyone. 0.88

00:25:41.960 Um, that's almost

00:25:43.300 certainly not what happened.

00:25:46.260 But what they're hoping

00:25:47.700 and implying is that maybe

00:25:51.900 these white people said

00:25:53.900 something racially

00:25:55.540 insensitive because

00:25:57.200 that's ultimately the

00:25:58.160 context that supposedly

00:25:59.340 justifies most of these

00:26:00.880 kinds of incidents and no

00:26:04.060 indication that anything

00:26:05.080 racially insensitive was

00:26:06.340 said, but even if it was

00:26:08.980 who cares makes no

00:26:11.820 difference.

00:26:12.360 It would not begin to

00:26:13.680 justify what happened

00:26:14.700 wouldn't even, wouldn't

00:26:15.740 come close in the slides.

00:26:16.620 It wouldn't, it wouldn't

00:26:17.140 get you one inch towards a

00:26:18.880 justification.

00:26:19.280 Okay.

00:26:20.560 So no, in this case, we

00:26:21.780 don't really need to wait

00:26:22.900 for the other side of the

00:26:23.740 story.

00:26:25.680 Um, especially when it's a

00:26:27.640 story, especially when it's,

00:26:30.420 it's a movie we've all seen

00:26:31.880 a million times.

00:26:32.760 And so we, we know, we know

00:26:35.440 what this is about.

00:26:36.140 We know what's happening

00:26:36.840 here.

00:26:38.580 And also, uh, since we're

00:26:40.300 talking about this police

00:26:41.000 chief, can I just ask, are

00:26:44.360 there any male police chiefs

00:26:45.940 left in this country?

00:26:46.960 I mean, we've covered

00:26:48.260 several stories this year

00:26:49.560 where we, we play a clip of

00:26:50.960 a law enforcement press

00:26:52.040 conference.

00:26:53.400 Unfortunately, there are,

00:26:54.400 uh, things happening

00:26:55.600 frequently that, uh, uh,

00:26:59.400 necessitate police press

00:27:00.820 conferences, law enforcement

00:27:01.780 press conferences.

00:27:03.080 And maybe you've noticed

00:27:04.100 this pattern too.

00:27:04.800 It's like, it's a, it's a

00:27:05.880 female police chief in all

00:27:07.280 of them.

00:27:07.720 You know, we've had stories

00:27:08.560 down in New Orleans, female

00:27:10.620 police chief, uh, Washington

00:27:12.180 DC, female police chief. 0.99

00:27:13.780 Even right now, right now

00:27:14.940 there are two major stories

00:27:16.520 happening and, uh, a female

00:27:18.480 police chief or commissioner

00:27:19.400 is in both.

00:27:20.720 There's a situation in

00:27:21.540 Cincinnati and there's also

00:27:23.040 the mass shooting in New

00:27:24.240 York city last night, female

00:27:26.280 police commissioner there.

00:27:28.940 Austin, Texas has a female 0.99

00:27:30.500 police chief.

00:27:31.240 Uh, so does Memphis.

00:27:32.360 So does Chattanooga.

00:27:33.240 In fact, did you know this?

00:27:35.100 And I, I looked this up.

00:27:37.900 There are, there are three,

00:27:39.780 well, this part I already

00:27:40.500 knew there are three major

00:27:41.660 cities in Ohio, Cincinnati,

00:27:42.960 Columbus, uh, and Cleveland.

00:27:44.380 They're like smaller cities

00:27:45.820 too, but there's the three

00:27:46.880 biggest cities in, in Ohio.

00:27:49.160 All of them, all three of

00:27:51.180 them have a female police 0.89

00:27:53.080 chief.

00:27:55.220 And how does that happen?

00:27:57.140 It doesn't really happen

00:27:58.060 because it just so happens

00:27:59.160 that in every major city in

00:28:00.740 the state, the most qualified

00:28:02.760 leader of a police force

00:28:04.420 happened to be an old woman.

00:28:07.880 Really?

00:28:09.780 Old out of shape women are 1.00

00:28:11.520 this, this, this just so

00:28:13.000 happens every, every major

00:28:15.200 city in this state just so

00:28:16.640 happens.

00:28:17.120 This is the most qualified

00:28:18.180 person.

00:28:20.460 Does anyone believe that?

00:28:21.800 Does anyone believe that?

00:28:25.360 It's not a coincidence that

00:28:26.580 many of these cities have, uh,

00:28:28.240 police departments that have

00:28:29.440 been gutted and destroyed by

00:28:30.940 DEI in Cincinnati.

00:28:31.800 This woman who we just 0.52

00:28:33.380 played is in the middle of a

00:28:34.540 lawsuit brought by four

00:28:35.720 veterans of her police force,

00:28:37.580 men alleging that they were

00:28:39.200 discriminated against and

00:28:40.180 passed over for the sake of

00:28:41.260 promoting females and

00:28:42.120 minorities.

00:28:44.100 And that's not a surprise

00:28:45.240 at all.

00:28:46.480 Same thing down in New

00:28:47.600 Orleans.

00:28:48.580 Remember during the, the 0.60

00:28:49.700 remember that we talked

00:28:50.560 about this during the prison

00:28:51.300 break story, we saw that

00:28:52.820 like every major city

00:28:55.300 official involved was

00:28:57.100 female.

00:28:57.780 They were doing press

00:28:58.640 conferences and it was

00:28:59.580 nothing but female 1.00

00:29:00.520 officials.

00:29:03.720 The whole leadership

00:29:04.620 structure, police department,

00:29:05.560 everything.

00:29:07.120 And it's all been decimated

00:29:08.600 by DEI policies.

00:29:11.260 But now in New Orleans, it's

00:29:12.420 like the Keystone cops down

00:29:13.560 there and they can't figure

00:29:14.260 out how to keep their inmates

00:29:15.260 inside their prisons. 0.99

00:29:18.200 It's, it's ridiculous. 0.96

00:29:19.680 And, you know, very few 0.95

00:29:21.640 people want to be honest about

00:29:22.880 this and just say the truth

00:29:24.120 out loud, which is that law

00:29:26.420 enforcement is a man's job. 0.99

00:29:29.420 Men should be in charge. 1.00

00:29:31.040 Men should be leading. 0.86

00:29:33.260 Men should be the ones out on 1.00

00:29:34.780 patrol patrol.

00:29:35.620 The feminization of law

00:29:40.160 enforcement has been an

00:29:41.200 absolute disaster for this

00:29:42.960 country, a disaster for every

00:29:44.640 city where it's happened.

00:29:46.420 Without exception.

00:29:49.320 And again, we all know that.

00:29:51.580 You can have people that are

00:29:52.580 crying about it and, and

00:29:53.980 pretending to be offended,

00:29:55.120 including so-called

00:29:55.940 conservatives.

00:29:56.900 There was this guy, who was

00:29:58.040 it?

00:29:58.180 This guy Zeke.

00:29:59.480 It's one of these Zeke, uh, I 1.00

00:30:00.860 forget his last name, but you

00:30:02.900 know, he's got, he's got, um,

00:30:05.620 a little bit of a following

00:30:06.620 on social media is one of

00:30:07.620 these conservatives, one of

00:30:08.800 these so-called conservatives

00:30:09.840 that, you know, calls

00:30:11.540 themselves conservatarian or

00:30:12.940 whatever, kind of conservative

00:30:14.120 libertarian.

00:30:15.440 And these guys who, uh, they'll,

00:30:18.700 they'll sort of meekly

00:30:19.560 criticize leftism and DEI and

00:30:21.920 all this sort of stuff.

00:30:22.680 They'll repeat all of the kind

00:30:24.480 of boomer talking points about

00:30:27.260 it.

00:30:27.620 They'll say all that, but the

00:30:29.000 moment that you actually

00:30:31.420 fundamentally disagree with the

00:30:35.560 left-wing worldview and assert

00:30:37.660 something that is contrary to

00:30:39.560 it, uh, that's when guys like

00:30:43.540 Zeke come in and say, Oh, shut 0.99

00:30:45.040 up. 1.00

00:30:45.240 This is ridiculous. 0.99

00:30:45.960 You're going too far. 0.99

00:30:46.960 And that's what he did.

00:30:47.560 So he left this comment, gave all

00:30:50.860 these anecdotal examples of, uh,

00:30:52.800 men.

00:30:53.100 I know a bunch of women who are 1.00

00:30:54.580 really good cops.

00:30:57.400 Um, this is, this is what they

00:30:59.200 do, you know? 0.99

00:31:00.000 Um, really just useless. 0.95

00:31:03.100 Like these are not the kind of 0.99

00:31:04.180 useless conservatives have no 0.96

00:31:05.840 impact on the culture, have not 0.98

00:31:07.140 changed anything at all, period.

00:31:09.360 Uh, because they're too afraid.

00:31:10.940 They're too afraid to actually

00:31:12.200 like, it's one thing to say

00:31:14.200 leftism is bad.

00:31:15.460 DEI.

00:31:16.500 Okay.

00:31:17.040 Well, great.

00:31:17.600 It's great that you can say all

00:31:18.600 that, but what's actually

00:31:21.340 happening is that there is a, a, a

00:31:25.980 campaign that's been waged now

00:31:27.360 for decades to feminize the 0.72

00:31:30.000 police forces and put women in

00:31:33.100 charge of them.

00:31:34.240 That is what's happening.

00:31:35.860 And if you're not willing to say

00:31:37.180 that is bad, it shouldn't be

00:31:38.960 happening.

00:31:39.840 Then you're, you're just, you're,

00:31:41.160 you're, you're no better than the 0.88

00:31:42.240 left.

00:31:42.500 You're like, you're, you're on

00:31:43.780 their spectrum.

00:31:44.640 Okay.

00:31:45.840 If you can't come out and say,

00:31:47.260 this is bad, we shouldn't

00:31:47.920 feminize the police, police work.

00:31:49.860 It's a, it's men are better, 1.00

00:31:52.100 better suited for it.

00:31:53.620 Men and women are different.

00:31:54.920 And so they have different

00:31:57.620 aptitudes.

00:31:58.280 They have different skills.

00:31:59.200 They have different things that

00:31:59.940 they're good at.

00:32:00.540 And police work, law enforcement

00:32:02.940 is a man's job. 1.00

00:32:04.720 If you're not willing to say that

00:32:06.220 something that would have been

00:32:07.600 totally uncontroversial to

00:32:09.360 everybody on in the world up

00:32:10.920 until five minutes ago, if you're

00:32:11.900 not willing to say that, then

00:32:13.540 you're not, you're certainly not

00:32:15.160 conservative.

00:32:15.680 And if you are, you're a rather 1.00

00:32:17.220 useless one. 1.00

00:32:18.080 So here's my challenge. 0.98

00:32:20.320 Um, challenge anyone listening

00:32:23.240 challenge to any leftist or any

00:32:24.480 so-called conservative who

00:32:25.640 inevitably post this clip

00:32:27.180 somewhere starts crying about

00:32:29.200 it.

00:32:30.940 Here it is.

00:32:32.620 Give me an example.

00:32:34.740 One example anywhere.

00:32:38.440 Of a police department that was

00:32:40.160 dominated by and led by males.

00:32:45.000 Historically, that's every police

00:32:46.380 department, and then started adding

00:32:48.280 females and things improved. 1.00

00:32:51.360 Improved in what way, you ask?

00:32:54.140 Well, any way.

00:32:55.300 Any way at all.

00:32:56.480 Any measurable improvement to any

00:32:58.780 police department anywhere spurred on

00:33:01.400 by the feminization of the

00:33:03.380 department, by the addition of female

00:33:04.760 officers and female leadership.

00:33:06.980 Give me one objective, provable

00:33:10.680 way, thing that you can point to

00:33:12.860 that shows how adding female cops and 1.00

00:33:17.280 female leadership has improved

00:33:19.100 police departments.

00:33:19.980 One example.

00:33:23.960 Just give me one.

00:33:26.220 And if you can't give me one, then I 0.98

00:33:28.520 think it's you who should shut up. 0.98

00:33:31.760 How about this? 0.61

00:33:33.980 You have an emergency, any kind of

00:33:36.180 emergency.

00:33:37.860 You get on the phone with 911.

00:33:39.960 You need to send the cops out.

00:33:41.880 Let's imagine a scenario where they

00:33:43.680 give you a choice.

00:33:44.220 They don't give you any other

00:33:44.840 information, just generically.

00:33:46.360 You can have a female cop or a male

00:33:48.060 cop come.

00:33:48.760 You get no other information about

00:33:50.760 them.

00:33:51.380 Who are you choosing?

00:33:55.180 A hundred times out of a hundred,

00:33:56.660 you're saying, yes, send the male cop.

00:33:59.700 Unless you want to step up and say, no,

00:34:01.140 no, I'd ask for the female cop. 1.00

00:34:04.380 Because if you may, if you say that,

00:34:06.000 then you're either lying or you're 0.99

00:34:07.580 insane. 0.89

00:34:07.920 So these are things that we all know.

00:34:12.980 And yet you've got people who still

00:34:15.300 insist on denying it.

00:34:19.340 But fortunately, I think there's an

00:34:21.000 increasing number of people who are

00:34:22.020 just done with that.

00:34:24.260 Just done with it.

00:34:25.160 Just done with playing pretend.

00:34:26.960 Pretending that we don't know what we

00:34:28.260 all know.

00:34:30.420 Pretending like every person in the

00:34:32.560 country knows you have an emergency.

00:34:34.600 You'd prefer for male cops to show up. 1.00

00:34:37.920 You see the press conference after

00:34:39.780 something bad is happening.

00:34:41.320 You see the press conference.

00:34:42.380 You feel a lot better when you see the

00:34:44.300 male police chief over the female.

00:34:46.280 You see that woman, this out of shape 1.00

00:34:48.020 old woman looks like a librarian 1.00

00:34:49.500 standing up there.

00:34:51.680 That does not inspire confidence in

00:34:53.820 anyone.

00:34:55.880 And we all know that.

00:34:57.920 The only difference is that there are

00:34:59.280 some of us are willing to say the

00:35:00.480 other there are those there's everybody

00:35:02.340 else who's still playing pretend still

00:35:04.320 playing the game.

00:35:07.980 And if you're still playing the game, I

00:35:09.400 just got no use for you.

00:35:10.620 I got no use.

00:35:14.780 OK, I think I'm the only podcaster in

00:35:17.400 America who hasn't said anything about

00:35:18.800 the Sidney Sweeney American Eagle ad at

00:35:21.040 this point.

00:35:22.340 Not avoiding the topic or anything.

00:35:23.940 It's just that other other topics seem

00:35:25.820 more interesting and important to me.

00:35:27.460 And then by the time I got around to

00:35:28.900 this one, it's it's like everyone has

00:35:31.300 everything that can be said about it

00:35:33.300 has already been said.

00:35:34.500 I'm not sure what I can add that

00:35:35.680 hasn't already been said a million

00:35:36.600 times, but there's a headline segment

00:35:38.580 and this is one of the big headlines.

00:35:40.160 So we'll cover it briefly.

00:35:41.520 So, as you know, the actress Sidney

00:35:42.860 Sweeney has appeared in some very viral

00:35:44.580 American Eagle ads.

00:35:46.080 And the biggest news for me is that

00:35:47.800 American Eagle still exists because I

00:35:50.240 honestly didn't know that when I was a

00:35:51.360 kid.

00:35:51.960 Now, when I was a kid, you had the

00:35:53.180 triumvirate of preppy clothing stores

00:35:55.800 in the mall, which was Abercrombie and

00:35:57.540 Fitch was the other one Hollister and

00:36:01.300 and and American Eagle.

00:36:03.520 And usually they'd be all like near

00:36:05.000 each other.

00:36:05.920 And then you had Aero Postal, which

00:36:08.100 was kind of the poor man's preppy

00:36:10.200 option.

00:36:13.460 And then then anyway, I assume that

00:36:15.640 all those stores had died when the

00:36:17.520 malls died, but I guess not.

00:36:18.680 So these ads have gotten a lot of

00:36:19.980 attention, probably seen them, but

00:36:22.200 let's check out a few of them here.

00:36:31.300 Sidney Sweeney has very

00:36:33.100 canes.

00:36:51.520 Sidney Sweeney has very canes.

00:36:53.840 Now, there wouldn't be anything

00:37:01.320 especially notable here if not for the

00:37:03.080 reaction from the left.

00:37:04.820 Woke leftists have spent the last

00:37:06.340 several days screaming hysterically

00:37:07.840 about these ads, in some cases

00:37:09.820 actually breaking down in tears.

00:37:12.860 Actually crying because of the American 1.00

00:37:15.240 Eagle ads that I just played.

00:37:16.300 They're very upset.

00:37:17.360 They claim these ads are somehow Nazi

00:37:18.980 propaganda.

00:37:19.820 So here's a sampling of their

00:37:21.600 unhinged reactions.

00:37:23.640 Did American Eagle just run an ad for

00:37:25.460 eugenics? 0.61

00:37:26.400 Genes are passed down from parents to

00:37:28.080 offspring, often determining traits

00:37:30.540 like hair color, personality, and even

00:37:33.480 eye color.

00:37:36.480 My genes are blue.

00:37:38.160 Sidney Sweeney has very canes.

00:37:40.420 Totally just talking about denim,

00:37:41.800 right?

00:37:42.560 Just a blonde haired, blue eyed woman 1.00

00:37:44.260 explaining how her good genes gave her

00:37:46.400 personality and purity.

00:37:47.680 I mean, are we really going to pretend

00:37:49.280 that this isn't a little fashy coated?

00:37:50.840 Look, I'm not saying that Sidney Sweeney

00:37:52.940 personally wrote this ad to revive the

00:37:55.060 Third Reich, but American Eagle 0.74

00:37:56.980 absolutely knew what they were doing

00:37:58.380 here.

00:37:58.860 Should we be surprised that a company

00:38:00.400 whose name is literally American Eagle

00:38:02.160 is making fascist propaganda like this?

00:38:05.520 Probably not, but it's still really

00:38:07.980 shocking.

00:38:08.740 Like a blonde haired, blue eyed, white 1.00

00:38:12.140 woman is talking about her good genes. 1.00

00:38:16.360 Like that is Nazi propaganda.

00:38:19.560 You guys are complaining about that Sidney

00:38:21.660 Sweeney jeans ad, so I went and saw it.

00:38:25.600 That's Nazi propaganda. 0.78

00:38:28.280 Wow.

00:38:29.340 I thought it was going to be like

00:38:31.520 kind of bad.

00:38:33.360 If you haven't fully comprehended how

00:38:35.640 bad it is, I need you to open your

00:38:37.480 eyeballs and listen. 0.85

00:38:39.120 This is Nazi 0.81

00:38:40.780 pure Nazi 0.77

00:38:42.760 saying that a blonde hair, blue eyed 0.86

00:38:45.500 girl has good genes is 1.00

00:38:47.540 Nazi.

00:38:48.840 Sidney Sweeney's jeans ad is giving

00:38:50.280 ethnic state propaganda.

00:38:52.040 It is giving dystopian.

00:38:53.140 It is giving 1940s Germany.

00:38:55.040 And they could have had her said 0.75

00:38:55.920 anything.

00:38:56.400 She could have just said, I'm hot,

00:38:57.500 drink my bath water, here are my

00:38:58.760 jeans.

00:38:59.120 But instead they had her say jeans are 0.98

00:39:00.600 passed down from parents to children.

00:39:02.680 I have good jeans.

00:39:04.240 My jeans are blue.

00:39:05.520 Why?

00:39:06.160 Yeah, no, that was like the most thinly

00:39:08.260 veiled propaganda I think that I've ever

00:39:10.200 seen.

00:39:11.200 So that's on TikTok.

00:39:12.280 But by the way, it's not just crazies on

00:39:13.780 TikTok that are saying this.

00:39:15.480 Good morning, America.

00:39:16.500 America ran a segment this morning on

00:39:19.920 this topic, and here's what they said

00:39:22.060 about it.

00:39:22.980 Time to check the pulse.

00:39:25.000 We begin with the backlash over a new

00:39:26.280 ad campaign featuring actress Sidney

00:39:28.120 Sweeney.

00:39:28.800 Yeah, the ads are for American Eagle, and

00:39:30.600 the tagline is Sidney Sweeney has great

00:39:33.000 genes.

00:39:33.580 Now, in one ad, the blonde hair, blue

00:39:35.440 eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA 0.99

00:39:37.880 being passed down from her parents.

00:39:39.820 The play on words is being compared to

00:39:42.800 Nazi propaganda with racial undertones.

00:39:47.320 The pun, good jeans, activates a troubling

00:39:51.480 historical associations for this country.

00:39:55.180 The American eugenics movement in its prime 0.98

00:39:57.900 between like 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea

00:40:02.160 of good jeans just to justify white supremacism.

00:40:06.420 Despite that backlash, American Eagle stock has been

00:40:09.900 soared.

00:40:10.940 So anyone who tells you that wokeness is dead, show

00:40:14.440 them that.

00:40:15.060 Show them that in American, that rather that good

00:40:17.080 morning, America segment.

00:40:19.020 This is 2020 era, hyper radical, insane wokeness that

00:40:24.160 is alive and well.

00:40:26.120 Maybe not well.

00:40:27.180 Maybe it's not doing well, but it is alive at

00:40:29.000 least.

00:40:29.180 So, yes, American Eagle is making Nazi propaganda.

00:40:34.600 We're told, by the way, just one note about that.

00:40:36.860 The CEO of American Eagle has a very Nazi sounding

00:40:39.560 name.

00:40:39.940 I will admit I was a little skeptical that American

00:40:42.680 Eagle was making Nazi propaganda, but then I saw the

00:40:45.520 guy's name and I went, OK, yeah, it all makes sense

00:40:48.140 because his name is Jay Schottenstein.

00:40:52.860 He's a member of very wealthy and influential Schottenstein

00:40:55.520 family based in Ohio.

00:40:56.700 So very Nazi like it's giving Nazi. 0.84

00:41:03.940 It's giving Nazi, as the kids would say, you know, all

00:41:07.020 those Nazis named Schottenstein.

00:41:09.060 I mean, if I had a dime for every Nazi named Schottenstein 0.84

00:41:11.880 that I've ever met, I'd be I'd be a very rich man.

00:41:17.420 I'd be so rich that you might confuse me for a Schottenstein 1.00

00:41:20.140 myself.

00:41:22.640 No, the CEO is Jewish, obviously.

00:41:24.720 And American Eagle was not attempting to usher in the

00:41:28.560 Fourth Reich. 0.88

00:41:30.340 They were actually just trying to sell jeans.

00:41:32.540 So that's all that was about.

00:41:34.540 And I'm guessing that these ads were very successful in that

00:41:37.600 regard.

00:41:39.460 Why are these leftists freaking out then?

00:41:41.520 Well, I do think the number one reason is that and I'm not the

00:41:45.060 first person to say this.

00:41:45.900 Again, it's kind of all been said, but I do think that it's not that hard to

00:41:51.800 decipher what's really going on here, especially when you look at the people

00:41:56.020 who are the most upset about the ads.

00:41:58.300 And so I think that almost all the women panicking over the ads are unattractive. 1.00

00:42:07.960 And so this is standard factory grade kind of female envy. 1.00

00:42:13.420 They're jealous because she's more attractive than them. 1.00

00:42:16.420 And they're worried, even more so, they're worried that, and this is what they're

00:42:22.300 actually crying about, is they're worried that the culture is moving away from this

00:42:27.280 body positivity nonsense where we celebrate ugliness, we celebrate obesity, we

00:42:32.340 celebrate mediocrity.

00:42:33.980 And they're worried about that because they're looking in the mirror and they're

00:42:37.520 going, okay, well, if we're not celebrating ugly mediocrity anymore, I'm in

00:42:40.360 trouble.

00:42:41.760 And so that's what they're worried about.

00:42:42.900 And they should be worried because we are moving away from that at long last.

00:42:46.660 And that's the real significance of these ads, I think.

00:42:49.060 And because in a way, it's always kind of weird to have a bunch of Christian 1.00

00:42:52.640 conservatives celebrating advertisements that revolve around sexual innuendo.

00:43:00.400 Historically, that's not the way that it normally went.

00:43:03.340 Now, obviously, there's nothing graphic in the ads.

00:43:05.380 It's not gratuitous, I don't think.

00:43:07.120 It's not pornographic or anything.

00:43:10.020 But it is sexual innuendo.

00:43:11.340 And historically, it has not been Christian conservatives championing that kind of

00:43:16.180 content.

00:43:17.060 The reason why conservatives are doing that now, are celebrating it, and I think it's

00:43:22.380 a valid reason, is that this represents a move back to normalcy.

00:43:27.140 People are tired of having freakish nonsense pushed in their faces every day.

00:43:31.560 Ads featuring morbidly obese people who are told that we're supposed to see as 0.94

00:43:35.120 beautiful or whatever are nonsense.

00:43:38.100 It's bizarre, it's nonsensical, it's not normal, it's abnormal, and it's disordered,

00:43:44.720 and people are sick of it.

00:43:46.860 This ad uses an attractive woman to appeal to people, especially men, and that's normal. 0.98

00:43:53.720 I mean, say what you want about using sex to sell merchandise.

00:43:56.400 It is normal, at least.

00:43:58.680 And it does represent a rejection of wokeness, a rejection of the leftist project.

00:44:02.520 It is a rejection of the left's rejection of beauty and normalcy.

00:44:08.700 So I think that's what's going on here.

00:44:11.200 And I don't know that a Sidney Sweeney jeans ad really warranted a five-day conversation,

00:44:17.280 but there is a certain cultural significance to it, and I think that's what it is.

00:44:22.200 All right, I got to play this, and I mean, I really have no choice to play it.

00:44:28.380 I don't even want to, necessarily, but I'm compelled by forces outside of my control to do this.

00:44:36.020 It is my obligation.

00:44:37.140 I'm duty-bound.

00:44:39.560 I'm called.

00:44:41.940 So something happened during a WNBA game yesterday.

00:44:45.360 Perhaps the first entertaining thing to have ever occurred during one of these games.

00:44:49.080 There's a player on the court lost her wig.

00:44:53.480 Her wig got knocked off.

00:44:55.440 And that was just, that was the beginning of the hilarity.

00:44:57.820 It was the beginning of the kind of comedy of errors that happened as a result of this event.

00:45:03.300 And so just watch this and see how it all unfolds.

00:45:07.040 And it bounced around a lot, but at the end, it went through the rim.

00:45:12.060 Oh, no.

00:45:13.740 Oh, no.

00:45:15.260 Oh, no.

00:45:16.040 Is she going to go ahead to the back?

00:45:17.300 Oh, no.

00:45:21.940 Time out call for Copper to deal with the malfunction.

00:45:32.820 Okay, so this actually goes on for several more minutes, and we won't bore you with all of it.

00:45:38.940 But just to summarize what happened here, one of the WNBA players had her wig knocked off. 1.00

00:45:43.680 Why was she wearing a wig while playing basketball? 1.00

00:45:47.020 Who knows?

00:45:48.220 I mean, of all the places to wear a wig, a basketball court seems like the worst place, or top five, at least. 0.58

00:45:53.900 Just a very poor choice.

00:45:55.980 So then she picks up her wig, and she sprints off the court. 1.00

00:45:59.740 So we've got two very funny events.

00:46:01.200 First, the wig comes off.

00:46:02.080 That's hilarious.

00:46:02.500 And then the reaction of picking up the wig and sprinting.

00:46:06.820 Because apparently in the world of female basketball, if your wig falls off, you are automatically excused for participation. 1.00

00:46:13.100 You just run off the court, go to the locker room, and cry, presumably.

00:46:18.080 I mean, I think they saw that the medical staff was rushing in with a pint of ice cream to make her feel better. 0.57

00:46:23.640 And then back on the court, the announcers don't acknowledge what happened.

00:46:29.220 They practice this kind of solemn, reverent silence.

00:46:33.360 You can tell one of the announcers almost started laughing, and she caught herself.

00:46:37.340 But a wig just fell off.

00:46:39.200 I mean, how do you not mention that?

00:46:43.260 They're trying to talk around it.

00:46:44.880 They won't say anything about the wig.

00:46:47.220 They won't give us a replay.

00:46:48.600 Now, over in men's sports, a player in men's sports can shatter his leg.

00:46:59.860 His Achilles tendon is shooting out of the top of his skull.

00:47:04.700 And we would get 50 slow-motion replays of it.

00:47:07.800 We would get up-close slow-motion so we can see the moment that the tendon rips off and is shot up through his skull.

00:47:17.440 And that's what you see with men's sports.

00:47:20.620 But in women's sports, if a woman loses her wig, they won't show you the replay. 1.00

00:47:25.400 It's too upsetting.

00:47:26.660 It's too tragic.

00:47:27.840 You can't.

00:47:28.720 We don't want this to be memorialized on camera.

00:47:31.820 We can't allow it to be seen.

00:47:34.360 And all of that's hilarious enough.

00:47:35.960 But then they actually stop play on the court.

00:47:38.460 They shut everything down.

00:47:39.760 And there's an emergency meeting with the refs and coaches and officials because some fans somewhere in the stands made fun of the player for losing her wig.

00:47:49.280 And we could get from the reaction, it was only one fan, apparently.

00:47:53.280 Now, again, this happens in men's sports.

00:47:55.260 If someone's wearing a wig and it falls off, the whole stadium would be erupting in laughter.

00:48:00.800 And it would be, it would be, it would be, there'd be no way.

00:48:04.860 If you tried to kick everybody out, you'd be kicking out the entire stadium of people.

00:48:09.760 Uh, in this case, one fan makes a joke about it and gets kicked out.

00:48:13.720 How do they even know that there was one?

00:48:14.980 Well, it's because there's only five people in the stands.

00:48:16.580 So, you know, they, they, so they, um, there's a 20, they really did.

00:48:21.380 They kicked out 20% of the audience because there was one person.

00:48:27.380 And then, uh, it's just, but again, you go back to the world of men's sports.

00:48:33.760 If you've ever been, if you've ever been to a game, a basketball game, football game, hockey, whatever.

00:48:39.760 You know, that in men's sports fans shout the absolute most vile and vulgar things all game long.

00:48:48.320 I mean, I went to a Raven Steelers game a few years back in Baltimore and, um, it was a great game.

00:48:55.480 We won, but the fans were screaming like it, they, they were death wishes, profanity, ancient curses, like these almost guttural noises that the fans are making.

00:49:12.920 These summoning the ghosts of their ancestors to murder the Steelers in their sleep brutal.

00:49:19.940 And yet in the WNBA, if you crack a smile, when a woman's wig falls off, they stop the game and remove you from the stadium. 0.99

00:49:27.300 So that's, uh, all that to say women and men, kind of the theme of that's emerged today in the show, women and men are very different, uh, very different.

00:49:39.180 And this is also why men's sports is just a much, much, much better product.

00:49:43.920 It is just simply a better product.

00:49:47.120 And, um, that's why I'm a little troubled by all this WNBA conversation, which I know I'm guilty of it.

00:49:53.540 I know I'm guilty of it.

00:49:54.860 Like, I think we should all stop talking about the WNBA, but how do I can't not talk about it?

00:49:59.640 I mean, it's her wig fell off of the, I have to talk.

00:50:02.040 Why do I have this show if I'm not going to talk about that?

00:50:05.020 Uh, and yet at the same time, it's a little bit of an internal crisis for me because I do think that we all should stop talking about the WNBA.

00:50:14.660 And there's this effort among some people to make the WNBA relevant or to pretend that it's a good product is, uh, is that's also troubling to me.

00:50:22.700 So, um, that's what happened there.

00:50:26.560 Hopefully, hopefully by now her, her wig is back on and, um, she'll use some better glue next time and everything will be fine in the world again.

00:50:34.300 So, um, let's get to the daily cancellation.

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00:52:19.700 Our YouTube feeds are full of videos of people telling us how bad seed oils are, and it's in almost all the chips, along with a bunch of other stuff that I can't pronounce, because I can't pronounce anything.

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00:54:42.700 Every so often you hear a story about an extremely rich person who's decided to disinherit his own children.

00:54:52.180 Now, there are various articles about how Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Simon Cowell, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jackie Chan, etc.

00:54:57.420 have all decided that their children won't receive any kind of significant inheritance.

00:55:02.300 Of course, it's easy for rich people to set up various trusts and LLCs that funnel a large sum of the money to their children,

00:55:07.340 even if their children technically don't get any direct inheritance.

00:55:10.560 And there's obviously no way to verify any of these pledges and whether they're carried out or not, since all these rich people are still alive.

00:55:16.500 That said, there's a clear trend here that's impossible to ignore.

00:55:19.920 At a minimum, it's now highly fashionable for prominent people to say that they are disinheriting their own children.

00:55:27.460 The latest example comes from someone named Tony Hawks, who is apparently not the skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

00:55:33.940 Instead, Tony Hawks is described as a British comedian.

00:55:37.680 Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.

00:55:38.840 It's unverifiable because anytime you search for this guy's name online, Google assumes you're using the possessive form of Tony Hawk.

00:55:45.040 So search for Tony Hawk stand up will return videos of Tony Hawk doing skateboarding tricks while standing up.

00:55:51.760 But in any event, Tony Hawk evidently still has a large amount of money.

00:55:55.220 And he recently gave an interview with the BBC where he talked about his estate planning.

00:55:59.480 And here's what he said.

00:56:01.000 My interest in this may have come from the fact that for some reason, my father had one brother.

00:56:06.980 He said to both of us, I'm not going to leave you anything.

00:56:09.760 And I thought that was rather interesting.

00:56:11.380 It didn't seem to bother me at all.

00:56:13.300 My brother, he wasn't so keen on the idea, but he told us and we knew.

00:56:18.900 And so we had to go out in the world knowing that's what was going to happen.

00:56:22.400 A lot of people say, well, look, it's so hard.

00:56:24.560 It's so hard.

00:56:25.360 You've got to help your children.

00:56:26.960 I can't get it out of my head.

00:56:28.680 What about all the children that won't get anything at all?

00:56:32.740 It just seems very unfair on them that through an accident of birth, that some people get a leg up.

00:56:39.600 Some people get a massive leg up.

00:56:40.980 Some people get a little leg up, but they're not going to get anything.

00:56:44.840 And I don't know why I think that way.

00:56:47.280 I just think it isn't fair because my son hasn't done anything to other than be born to me to earn that money.

00:56:57.380 So I think we need to think again myself.

00:56:59.860 I know I'm pretty much on my own on this, but I'm not sure whether just an automatic leaving things to family is relevant anymore.

00:57:10.720 It used to be, but I'm not so sure anymore.

00:57:13.460 What are you going to do with this money if you don't leave it to your son?

00:57:16.060 Are you going to spend, spend something like Viv Nicholson?

00:57:18.160 No, what I'm actually doing is I'm setting up a charitable trust, leaving Arlo a job if he wants to take it, working for that charity, helping to give money away to good causes.

00:57:30.180 As you can tell, he's a really funny guy.

00:57:32.960 Tony Hawks oozes charisma and brings mirth wherever he goes.

00:57:35.940 But in this instance, Tony Hawks wasn't just bringing down the house with some high quality British humor.

00:57:41.180 He also declared with a straight face that, quote, it seems very unfair for children to gain access to a large amount of money by an accident of birth.

00:57:48.100 Now, put aside the godless, nihilistic line of thinking here and just assume that his premise is accurate.

00:57:54.660 Let's assume that every human birth is some kind of cosmic accident, whatever that means.

00:57:58.980 And therefore, people don't deserve money from their parents because their whole life and their circumstances of their birth are accidental.

00:58:05.820 If that's the case, why do these random unnamed charities deserve the money?

00:58:11.220 Aren't those charities composed of people who are also born by accident?

00:58:14.280 And isn't it a gigantic accident that they're getting a bunch of money just because Tony Hawks happened to look them up and send them some cash before he died?

00:58:23.980 There's really no way to make sense of anything he just said, but it's a common line of argument you see all the time on the left.

00:58:30.160 Same kind of thinking that yields brilliant insights like,

00:58:33.020 billionaires don't deserve their money, so therefore we should steal their money and give it to barely sentient government bureaucrats instead.

00:58:39.580 Except in this case, the argument's even worse because he's depriving his own bloodline in the process.

00:58:44.400 I mean, let's assume for a second that Tony Hawks means every word he says and that his planned charitable organization isn't some kind of tax avoidance scheme, which it could very well be.

00:58:52.640 The truth is, increasingly, a lot of people are doing the same thing that he's doing.

00:58:56.660 I mean, it's why you hear this kind of, we talked about it on the show before, I think, this is becoming a very popular thing for parents.

00:59:01.080 Parents are increasingly cutting children out of their wills or reducing the amount of money that some of their children receive if they're leaving a will at all.

00:59:08.560 Recently, the business school at Washington University in St. Louis posted a summary of research into inheritances and wills that was conducted by researchers in the European Economic Review.

00:59:17.900 And they looked at U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1995 to 2014.

00:59:21.560 And here's what they found, quote,

00:59:22.440 Robert Pollack, an economics professor who worked on this research, said this is a trend that's becoming much more common.

00:59:48.560 And, quote, we've shown that bequests are much more unequal now than in the recent past and much more unequal than generally recognized.

00:59:55.460 According to the paper, quote, the proportion of parents ages 50 and over with more than one child who report having wills in which they treat their children unequally increased steadily between 1995 and 2014.

01:00:05.580 It's now nearly 40 percent, up double digits from just a couple of decades ago.

01:00:09.360 So, in other words, relationships between parents and their children, or at least some of their children, are on the decline.

01:00:15.380 And parents are leaving less money to their children as a result.

01:00:19.140 And in many cases, they aren't leaving wills at all, leaving children to fight over the money in court, which is just an extremely irresponsible thing.

01:00:27.260 I can't, I just don't understand, especially older parents who you haven't bothered to make a will.

01:00:31.520 You're just leaving your family to deal with this.

01:00:33.240 It's incredibly selfish.

01:00:35.180 They're finding other uses for the money that they've saved from spending on themselves or donating it to charity, as Tony Hawks claims he's doing.

01:00:42.520 What this means is that we're living in the first generation in American history and world history that is just disregarding the concepts of legacy and birthright on a large scale.

01:00:53.260 This is not the only evidence of that.

01:00:55.080 We see many other cases, but this is one symptom of this problem.

01:00:58.360 For millions of Americans, it's becoming an appealing prospect to make their children's lives more difficult, all for the benefit of complete strangers.

01:01:07.360 That's the fair outcome, says Tony Hawks.

01:01:10.540 Better to give random nonprofits a leg up or help other people's children than your own children.

01:01:17.500 Because your child didn't earn it.

01:01:19.940 Even though, again, the people that you're giving the charity to and the people that the charity is giving the money to, they didn't earn it either.

01:01:24.400 And this is the kind of madness that you hear almost exclusively among boomers. 0.96

01:01:31.200 I mean, these are people who grew up in a very different economy, one where young Americans weren't competing against millions of foreign nationals for entry-level jobs,

01:01:39.340 and where the government wasn't constantly printing money and devaluing every dollar they earned.

01:01:43.720 To use Tony Hawks' term, boomers benefited from an actual accident of birth,

01:01:50.260 which is that they spent their working years in a country that's now unrecognizable.

01:01:55.900 And now, as we've seen so often, they're pulling up the ladder, which is indefensible.

01:02:01.780 And to be clear, it would be indefensible even if the economy hadn't changed in the ways that I just outlined.

01:02:06.060 And leaving your fortune for other people's kids, but not your own, it's the weirdest kind of selfishness.

01:02:12.080 It amounts to spite and resentment towards your own bloodline.

01:02:15.980 And I will just never understand this kind of thing.

01:02:20.400 I'm not even 40 yet, despite appearances.

01:02:24.240 And already, one of the main things that drives me in life is the desire to leave a legacy for my children.

01:02:31.080 And that desire seems to be less and less common.

01:02:36.540 I made this point on X the other day, and one of the top replies, a comment with over 200 likes,

01:02:40.800 is from a boomer woman who said,

01:02:43.500 No, boomer here, I plan to spend every dime!

01:02:47.620 Exclamation point.

01:02:50.720 This is a popular attitude these days.

01:02:53.100 It's like insanely, gratuitously selfish, but it's a very popular attitude.

01:02:59.760 It would have been totally alien to your grandparents, this attitude.

01:03:04.920 I'm going to spend every dime so you don't get it.

01:03:08.040 Your grandparents did not have, and you as a boomer, you benefited from the fact that your parents or grandparents didn't have that attitude.

01:03:16.140 But you do.

01:03:17.920 And their grandparents didn't have that attitude, and their grandparents didn't.

01:03:20.560 On down through the ages.

01:03:22.720 Leaving a legacy, making sure that your children are wealthier and more prosperous than you.

01:03:27.600 This should be one of your main focuses in life, and especially as you get towards the end of your life.

01:03:35.140 This should be one of the only things that matters to you, is making sure that your children...

01:03:40.600 So this ridiculous attitude that you hear from some parents and older parents when they say,

01:03:45.380 Well, I didn't have this. 0.82

01:03:46.420 I didn't have it, so you shouldn't have it.

01:03:47.980 You should want your children to have the things that you didn't have. 0.96

01:03:50.780 What the hell is wrong with you?

01:03:55.620 You know, protecting your child's birthright. 0.94

01:03:58.100 These are the things that motivated our ancestors, drove them to achieve incredible things,

01:04:03.780 and build the civilization that we all now live in.

01:04:07.840 If our ancestors had the attitude that you had,

01:04:13.640 You don't get this because you didn't work for it.

01:04:16.100 I want you to have to work.

01:04:17.560 If our ancestors had that attitude, we would not have the civilization.

01:04:21.540 We would not have any civilization.

01:04:24.600 And now you have people like Tony Hawks and the boomer woman in my comments,

01:04:27.880 just tossing all that to the side.

01:04:29.420 It's insane.

01:04:31.020 Totally insane.

01:04:31.720 So I will make right now the opposite pledge.

01:04:36.520 Okay?

01:04:37.700 And I don't have...

01:04:38.620 I'll make the opposite pledge from the one that I hear from Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates and all the rest of them.

01:04:42.640 I don't have anywhere close to the kind of money they do.

01:04:44.800 But I will say,

01:04:46.040 When I die,

01:04:47.760 Not one penny of my wealth will go to some charitable organization.

01:04:52.940 Not a dime.

01:04:54.280 I want to make sure it's very clear in the will.

01:04:55.880 Do not give a penny of this to charity.

01:04:57.880 I don't want to give...

01:04:58.380 Not a penny.

01:04:58.940 Because it will all go to my family.

01:05:03.880 Not your family.

01:05:05.260 Not your kids.

01:05:06.680 My family.

01:05:07.900 Only them.

01:05:08.840 Every dime.

01:05:09.620 Only my blood.

01:05:10.880 I will leave it all to them.

01:05:13.080 And no one else.

01:05:15.500 Now, I donate to charity while I'm alive.

01:05:18.820 But when I die,

01:05:20.640 all that is mine

01:05:21.580 belongs to my children.

01:05:24.120 It is their birthright.

01:05:26.300 I'm doing all of this for them.

01:05:28.560 I want...

01:05:29.240 I want...

01:05:30.380 I'm willing to say,

01:05:31.460 I want my children to be rich and privileged.

01:05:35.280 It's crazy that that's now some sort of mind-blowing statement for someone to make.

01:05:39.660 I want my children to be rich and privileged.

01:05:41.840 That's what I want for them.

01:05:43.660 Privilege is not a bad thing.

01:05:44.500 I want my kids to have privilege.

01:05:45.640 I want them to have more privileges than I did.

01:05:46.880 I want them to have a lot more privileges than I did.

01:05:49.080 I want them to reap the benefits of my work.

01:05:52.940 I want to plant a tree so that they enjoy its fruits and sit in its shade.

01:05:58.140 I want that for them much more than I want it for myself.

01:06:04.700 And I can't understand any parent who lives any other way.

01:06:09.260 And that is why anyone who is pledging to disinherit his own children in a depraved act

01:06:13.460 of narcissism masked as altruism, which is often how narcissism is repackaged,

01:06:18.500 is today canceled.

01:06:23.240 That'll do it for the show today.

01:06:24.140 Thanks for watching.

01:06:24.580 Thanks for listening.

01:06:25.080 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:26.140 Have a great day.

01:06:26.940 Godspeed. 0.98

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01:06:37.440 A gunman opens fire in a New York City office building, 0.77

01:06:39.880 and President Trump scores a sweet trade deal with the EU.

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Ep. 1631 - Gay Sex Offender Buys a Baby Through Surrogacy. How Is This Legal？

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